On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, rford@candis.com.cn wrote:

To: "Mailing list for CentOS mirrors." centos-mirror@centos.org

Yeah - (hostrino) and the mirror in fujian are both damn pathetic. Speed into Beijing is at best 30-40k/sec.

Between my servers in HK and Beijing on the direct CNC-HK gateway I get 5-600 k/sec.

The hostrino one is also next to useless during business hours from the mainland. And the be10 one on fujian is always useless.

RF.

On 17/11/2006, at 7:44 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:

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Richard Ford wrote:

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I can't even check that out..... damn China international gateway! I could be doing this sync for weeks! If only I had more space on my HK servers, I could reroute my sync via there and be done in 6 hours. :-\ Oh well. Pain now for sheer convenience for myself and others here later.....

I thought we had a mirror in HK who offered a rsync target...

I have 2 suggestions:

1) since your HK server has better connectivity, by all means tunnel through it for your initial sync. Some possible options for this are: * through an ssh tunnel. eg, ssh -L 8873:remote_mirror:873 your_hk_server, followed by rsync [switches] --port=8873 localhost::<rsynctarget> * through a tcp redirector. eg, iptables prerouting dnat or a usermode app like redir * through a vpn, etc.

2) I will soon have to restrict my mirror to limited geographical regions, but for now you may still have some luck with syncing from my mirror. (I know I've achieved > 1MB/s to well connected hosts in China, but your mileage may vary). You may choose from mirror.averse.net::centos (excluding dvds) or mirror.averse.net::centos-incdvd (including dvds, obviously)